interminable

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English

Etymology

From Middle French interminable, from Late Latin interminabilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

interminable (comparative more interminable, superlative most interminable)

  1. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC, page 61:
      After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.
    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 193:
      The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.
    • 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A L Burt Company, , published March 1915, →OCLC, page 137:
      It was now a beautiful, moonlit night. The air was crisp and invigorating. Behind them lay the interminable vista of the desert, dotted here and there with an occasional oasis.
    • 1983 February 5, Joseph Van Ness, “Keeping It Alive”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 10:
      Life's interminable succession of stages.

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Noun

interminable (plural interminables)

  1. (mathematics, dated) A repeating decimal.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interminābilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

interminable m or f (masculine and feminine plural interminables)

  1. interminable, unending

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interminābilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ terminer +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

Adjective

interminable (plural interminables)

  1. unending, endless, ceaseless, neverending

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inteɾmiˈnable/
  • Rhymes: -able
  • Syllabification: in‧ter‧mi‧na‧ble

Adjective

interminable m or f (masculine and feminine plural interminables)

  1. interminable
    Synonym: inacabable
  2. unending
    Synonym: infinito

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